Chapter 85: Breaking Ground
Even Qingshan and Cui'er, after the master bricklayer confirmed the plot for building a yard and a house, it took three or four days to plan out the things needed for the new yard one by one.
"Three main rooms facing north and south are essential, when the time comes, let's use the middle one as a living room, the east one for the two of us, the west one for the two of us, and the big girl and the little tiger will live for the two of them when they grow up." After eating, Lian Qingshan's family sat in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness, and Lian Qingshan casually used branches to scratch on the ground.
"Well, there will be no kitchen in the main room, let's make an upside-down seat at the back of the main room, and the kitchen will be placed in the upside-down seat, and then there will be two more stoves in the kitchen, one side will lead to the east house, and the other side will be through the west house, and then make the kang plate a little bigger, build a fire wall, and it will be warm in winter." Cui'er nodded and continued, and also got a tree branch, and compared it to the sketch drawn by Lian Qingshan.
"Cui'er, when you stir tea, do you want to make a separate room?" Even Qingshan suddenly thought of his own source of income, this matter of picking tea and roasting tea, it still needs to be taken seriously, if it is a separate room to fry tea, it doesn't seem to be too much.
"Well, it's okay to fry tea in a room, now we are all stir-frying in the big pot in the kitchen, and we can make a special pot for stir-frying tea in the future." Cui'er nodded, thinking that the idea would work.
Thinking of this, Cui'er looked back at the big girl and Xiaohu who were playing with the soil on the side, the little hands and faces of the two children were black again, if there was a bathroom, when it was winter, she wouldn't want to bathe the children again, and she was afraid of freezing them.
"Otherwise, let's make the upside-down seat into three rooms, the north side of the main house does not open the window, and directly add a row of upside-down houses behind the main house, the middle one is a kitchen, one on both sides is reserved for fried tea, and one can be used as a bath."
When it comes to baths. Cui'er's heart moved, the current conditions of her house were too simple, and when she couldn't stand the heat and wanted to take a bath, she could only let Lian Qingshan block the door. I secretly wiped my head in the kitchen, and I couldn't even soak my body in hot water, which was really uncomfortable.
"Bathhouse?" Lian Qingshan nodded slightly when he heard this, although he didn't think that the bath room was necessary, but seeing the look of expectation on Cui'er's face, Lian Qingshan felt that he had no reason to refuse.
"Mother, did you say that you can enlarge the big bathtub and then lie in the bath room?" Compared with Lian Qingshan's slightly flat expression, the big girl and Xiaohu who were playing on the side suddenly became excited. Don't care about playing with soil and ants, the big girl rushed to Lian Qingshan and Cui'er with big shining eyes and asked.
Cui'er told them about the bathroom before, but she didn't expect the girl to remember, she reached out and stroked the girl's hair, and watched with satisfaction that the original yellow hair became black and shiny. With a gentle smile on his face.
"Yes, it's that kind of bathhouse, when the time comes, let's build a fire wall in the bath, and then ask Daddy to buy us a big wooden barrel, and the big girl and the little tiger can sit in the bathtub and take a bath, which is more comfortable than the current big wooden basin!"
"Wow, I want a bath, I want a bath!" The big girl snuggled excitedly in Cui'er's arms. The big black and white eyes were watery and excited.
"Bath! Bath! Xiaohu didn't know what the bath room was for, and when he saw his sister so happy, he surrounded Cui'er and Lian Qingshan, and ran in circles with his calves, although he stumbled. But the excited little face was flushed.
"Okay, let's get a bath." Even Qingshan looked so happy when he saw his wife and children, and immediately nodded in agreement, a bath room doesn't cost much money, since everyone likes it. Then get one.
"Uh-huh!" Cui'er nodded violently, and her eyes were shining. Together with Lian Qingshan, I discussed the details of the main house, such as how big the windows should be opened, where to open a door, and after all the discussions were made, I discussed where to build a thatched house, where to set aside a vegetable garden, where to connect with the old yard, and so on.
In this way, the communication of writing and painting on the ground with small branches is surprisingly good, Cui'er and Lian Qingshan, plus the big girl and Xiaohu who come out to interrupt from time to time, have already designed a prototype of the house after an hour of hard work.
Cui'er was afraid that she had forgotten the style of the house, so she went back to the house and took out a piece of paper, and picked out a small stick from the stove pit, and took the black ash on it, took the ruler used to cut clothes, and drew the style of the house that she and Lian Qingshan said, because Cui'er discussed the size of the house or something, and a similar scale method was used on this drawing.
Later, when the bricklayer came over to talk about the house, Cui'er and Lian Qingshan showed the bricklayer the style of the house they thought, and the bricklayer surnamed Yang saw the picture drawn by Cui'er, and could see at a glance how many rooms they wanted and how to arrange it, and they were full of praise for the picture drawn by Cui'er.
Cui'er was a little embarrassed in her heart, she just drew a simple floor plan according to the appearance of the modern house plan, marking which is the door, which is the window, which is the kang and which is the stove, how can it be as good as Yang Bricklayer said?
"Leave this house to me, can you teach me how to draw this picture? If you teach me how to draw this picture, the wages of your house will be reduced by one tael. After the Yang bricklayer saw Cui'er's drawing, he couldn't put it down, and he couldn't wait to learn how to draw this picture immediately.
"The drawing method of this picture is a blind figurination, there is nothing that can not be taught, if you want to learn, we can teach you. But we still have to build a house upside down, we are very grateful if you don't increase this salary, where can we reduce the money for you again! Cui'er said, she didn't say that she came up with this picture, and pushed Lian Qingshan in front.
"That's it, four taels of silver, we have a lot of money." Even Qingshan immediately said.
"Okay, don't say it's an extra upside-down seat, it's just an extra row of main houses, and I won't charge you a penny more, you guys are so good!" That Yang bricklayer can learn new things, and the money he gets will not be less, not to mention how happy he is, he just feels that even Qingshan and his family are kind and capable, and they are very respectful.
According to Aunt Lu's recommendation, Lian Qingshan went to the town to find a feng shui gentleman and calculated the time to break the ground, and set the time for laying the foundation and starting to dig the soil on June 29. I asked Mr. Feng Shui about the style of the house I designed myself, and when I saw that there was no problem, I was ready to start breaking ground.
Thinking about the new house is very exciting. Even Qingshan and Cui'er's movements were extremely fast, discussing what kind of house to build, measuring the place and setting the time to start construction, even Qingshan and Cui'er. Then we began to recruit people.
The Yang bricklayer and his three apprentices who had made an appointment before, the five strong laborers of the village helpers they found, plus the four members of Cui'er's family, add up to more than a dozen people.
Because building a house is indispensable for someone to help cook, and Cui'er herself has to take care of the children and cook for more than a dozen people, so she simply called Yinhuan's sister-in-law and Lian Qinghe's daughter-in-law Dong to help.
As for why they didn't call Aunt Lu and Aunt Chunzhu, it was because Aunt Lu was busy buying dowries for Huazhi, and the family she was talking about was the Du family in the wealthy Litou Village. And Aunt Chunzhu's daughter-in-law Zhang, who married back, is now also pregnant. The two of them were so busy that they hit the back of the head, and Cui'er couldn't bear to trouble them anymore.
On June 29, it is advisable to move the ground and avoid traveling, and this day is set by Cui'er's family. On the day when the foundation of the new yard was dug, after Cui'er got up early in the morning, she cleaned up the big girl and the little tiger, put away all the valuable things in the house, and went to the ground to make breakfast.
Cui'er's family built a house, including food and housing, and the wages of the bricklayer and the three apprentices were a total of four taels. The rest of the people who came to help were twenty dollars a day each.
Rural people have two meals, Cui'er's family will follow the flow of a breakfast, a meal, Cui'er got up early in the morning and steamed a large pot of bud rice noodles, buckwheat noodles and white noodles mixed with steamed buns, and cooked a large pot of bud rice batter. This is the breakfast that has been prepared.
The steamed buns of Sanhe noodles were steamed in the pot, and the two of Yinhuan and Lian Qinghe also arrived. There were old people with children at the head of Yinhuan's family, but no one in Qinghe's family brought them, so they hugged Da Mao and Ermao, and Yinhuan saw them on the side. I pouted secretly in my heart, whether this was for Cui'er's family to help, or to find someone to bring the child for me.
Cui'er didn't say anything, let Lian Qinghe and Yinhuan into the house, and put Da Mao and Er Mao on the kang for them to play.
"Cui'er, my cooking skills are not good, it's no problem to take care of children, except for cooking, leave any work to me, and keep it for you to do a good job!" Yinhuan sent his man out to help Lian Qingshan, and came to Cui'er and said to Cui'er.
"Don't worry, your life will definitely be indispensable!" Cui'er said with a smile, pushing the green vegetables and green onions pulled from the backyard in the morning to Yinhuan, "Why don't you pick the vegetables yet?"
"Yes, landlord!" Silverring giggled, and walked to the door with the dustpan to pick the vegetables.
Dong stood beside Cui'er, her hands and feet were a little at a loss, the majesty she played in front of Cui'er before was not visible at all, her expression was apprehensive, as if she was an angry little daughter-in-law, which made Cui'er a little speechless.
"Brother and sister, this house is cooking and taking care of the children, I can't take care of it alone, you help me keep an eye on the children, and the food on the stove or something, you can also help me cook." Cui'er explained the task, and when she saw that the Dong family nodded obediently, she didn't say anything anymore, "While there is still work, let's make breakfast and boil more water later, they are digging the foundation and working hard." ”
The people who worked came one after another, and even the master bricklayer who was farthest away from Dao'er arrived soon after the sun rose, and Cui'er entertained them to dinner, and then watched the group of old men go to the place where they were ready to build a house, ready to work.
"Come, let's dig the first shovel!" Yang bricklayer handed a shovel to Lian Qingshan.
"Good!" Lian Qingshan unequivocally took the shovel and dug down a shovel of soil, which can be regarded as breaking the foundation of the new house.
"Break the ground!" Master Yang let out a long shout, long and with a mysterious atmosphere, and everyone watching from the side moved when they saw this, waving the guy in their hands and digging the foundation.
One person and one place, and after a short period of effort, large and small pits and ditches appeared on the ground, and the excavated soil also piled up a large mound of soil next to it.
Cui'er looked at this hot work scene, the excitement in her heart was overflowing, the big girl and the little tiger were excitedly standing behind Cui'er and watching, clapping their palms and looking curiously at the people who were digging holes in the ground, and they also knew that this was going to build a new house for their own family.
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